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US to exit the UNFCCC, but will it be out of the picture entirely?

While the latest statement of intent to withdraw from the UNFCCC may herald an exit from the climate treaty regime, ...

Climate Finance

Looking Back: 2025 in Review

2025 was a whirlwind year for Africa’s climate agenda, with both internal and external events shaping the continent’s positions and ...

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The Centrality of the COP30 Action Agenda

The Climate Action Agenda is emerging as another currency in the UNFCCC COPs: a currency that catalyses momentum for implementation ...

COP30

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence

Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, ...

African Climate Policy

A New Just Transition Mechanism: Why It Matters for Africa

The Just Transition Mechanism could connect “transitions out” with “transitions in”, linking decarbonisation with Africa’s diversification needs and supporting critical ...

COP30

Thirty COPs and Robbers: Key Outcomes from the Negotiations

This year’s COP30 talks proffered the same tensions, particularly around finance, increased ambition, burden shifting, and how to agree to ...

COP30

The fate of Africa’s forests at COP30

Tropical forests were front and centre at COP30, with the launch of two initiatives dedicated to forest conservation. For Africa’s ...

COP30

A trillion dollar promise on a warming planet: can COP30’s finance deliver for Africa?

Grand ambitions and financial pledges of COP30 The curtains came down on the Brazilian city of Belém on Saturday once ...

Climate Finance

 Africa’s Climate Agenda in the Wake of the South African G20 Presidency

Following the US withdrawal from the G20 Summit, and a lack of agreement on climate and just transition matters, the ...

African Climate Policy

African Countries Asked to Track their own Spending on Adaptation

Ahead of COP30 there was much anticipation, particularly by developing countries, that the indicators to track progress on the achievement ...

Adaptation

Mid COP30: African representatives call for Adaptation, Finance and Fair Trade

At the halfway point of COP30, the Chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators (AGN), Dr. Richard Muyungi and the ...

COP30

COP30 Kick-off: the Issues that Await the Negotiators

This year’s COP has to respond and rectify the legacies of the dismal outcomes of COP29, and must deliver on ...

COP30

Debt Addressed but not Overhauled at Development Finance Conference

The fourth Financing for Development Conference (FFD4) convened in Sevilla, Spain, ending on 3 July, marking the end of a ...

Climate Finance

Advocating for a Just Transition in the Global South

We spoke with Leanne Govindsamy at Southern Transitions about her views about the just transition, the need for more regional ...

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Finally, some Just Transition Agreement, but what of the Fossil Fuel Roadmap?

The June climate talks were able to deliver a draft that finally sets out an expansive view of the just ...

COP30

Africa Can and Should Have a Fully Renewable Energy Mix

In a recent report, Powershift Africa argues that Africa is well positioned to develop a fully renewable energy system and ...

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From Baku to Belém: will politics derail the US$1.3 Trillion Climate Finance Roadmap?

As the US$1.3trillion climate finance roadmap hangs in the balance, the Bonn meetings expose a familiar rift, with developed countries ...

Climate Finance

Will the June Climate Talks Deliver on the Global Stocktake?

The Global Stocktake concluded in 2023, but Parties still cannot agree on the structure of discussions for its implementation. What ...

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